Abstract
Headache is a reason for frequent consultation in the emergency department during the pediatric age, especially within the group of adolescents, it is vitally important to recognize its etiology in order to carry out a more accurate approach. For this reason, it is necessary to know, that the most on the times the headache will be due to a primary cause (migraine or tension-type headache) or secondary to trivial infectious processes (respiratory, urinary or gastrointestinal infections) and in a reduced number of cases it will be secondary more serious processes which should be excluded by means of a good interrogation, physical examination and complementary studies to avoid putting the integrity of the adolescent at risk.
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